> -----Original Message-----
> From: nospam.list@stripped> Sent: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:12:19 +0100
> To: david.spidley@stripped> Subject: Re: Bulk conversion of 3.23 latin1 to 4.1 utf-8
>
> On 17.02.2006 15:34 (+0100), David Spidley wrote:
>> What is the official way to take this latin1 3.23 dump and load it
>> into the brand new 4.1 utf-8 database, with the characters being
>> converted during the load?
>
> I'm not sure if the official way will help you. I've tried to copy a 4.0
> database (latin1) to 5.0 (utf-8) and couldn't make it work with MySQL
> Administrator's tools. phpMyAdmin made a good impression though, and it
> got a lot faster since couple of years ago! You could export the
> database as latin1 and re-import it as utf-8 or so. Just give it a try...
Great! How can I do this so that it works?
Everything I have tried has failed.
(I would like to stick to command line stuff if possible.)

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